Ronnie Broughton

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Ronnie Lavelle Broughton
Webster Parish School Board District 8 member
Assumed office
2003
Preceded by Sue Beck
Personal details
Born (1941-09-23) September 23, 1941 (age 82)
Magnolia, Columbia County
Arkansas, USA

Reared in Homer

Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
Political party Republican-turned-Constitution Party
Spouse(s) Glenda Sherrill Broughton (married 1970)
Children Jennifer Aleece Broughton Sones
Jason Karlisle Broughton
Parents Elmon Ernest and Edna Arena Kirkpatrick Broughton
Residence Minden, Webster Parish
Alma mater Homer (Louisiana) High School
Louisiana Tech University
Occupation Businessman:
Independent agent at Realty Marketplace
Religion Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Military service
Service/branch United States Army
Louisiana National Guard

Ronnie Lavelle Broughton (born September 23, 1941) [1][2] is a businessman and politician from Minden, Louisiana, who is the state chairman of the Constitution Party. A former Republican, he is a four-term member of the Webster Parish School Board.[3][4]

Background

Broughton is the third of five children of the former Edna Arena Kirkpatrick (1915-2001)[5] and Elmon Ernest Broughton (1914-2009), a native of rural Hico in Lincoln Parish and son of James Claude Broughton (1880-1931) and the former Nola Womack.[6] Elmon Broughton was a driller in the oilfields and raised hay. Broughton was primarily reared in Homer, the seat of government of Claiborne Parish, where for two decades Elmon and Edna Broughton operated the former The Purple Cow restaurant, a popular community gathering place.[6]

Broughton and his two older siblings, Ernest Broughton (born 1934) of Bremen, Georgia, and Lawana June Weaver (born 1938) of Minden, were born in Magnolia in Columbia County in southern Arkansas.[2] His two younger brothers were born in Homer. Barry Lynn Broughton (1951-1980), served in the United States Air Force in the Vietnam War. John Randall Broughton (born November 1953), still resides in Homer. Elmon, Edna, and Barry Broughton are interred at Arlington Cemetery in Homer, the resting place of many notable individuals of Claiborne Parish.[6] Broughton graduated in 1959 from Homer High School[7] and attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, studies and dates of attendance not specified.[8]

Broughton has also lived in Metairie in suburban Jefferson Parish outside New Orleans, dates not specified.[9] He served in the United States Army and the Louisiana National Guard. After military service, he worked for an electric product manufacturer who serviced major industries across the state.[10]

A long-term Minden resident, Broughton over the years has been affiliated with Ducks Unlimited, the National Rifle Association, the National Wild Turkey Federation, the Boy Scouts of America, Lions International, the United Way of America, and the Webster Parish Fair Committee.[11] An independent agent at Realty Marketplace,[12] Broughton is married to the former Glenda Sherrill (born September 1945),[13] daughter of Glenn Sherrill (1910-1993) and Lola M. Sherrill (1911-1981), who are interred at Old Athens Cemetery in Athens in Claiborne Parish.[14] The Broughtons have two children, Jennifer Aleece Broughton Sones (born March 1971) and Jason Karlisle Broughton (born August 1976).[9]

Broughton is an elder of the Minden Presbyterian Church.[15]

Political life

Broughton is a former president and the current District 8 member of the 12-person elected Webster Parish School Board.[16] Unopposed for his fourth term on the board in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on November 4, 2014,[4] he is one of two members of the Constitution Party to hold office in Louisiana; the other is Police Chief Randy Fontenot of Eunice in St. Landry Parish.[17] Broughton said the school board under his presidency had worked "on the path to improving our education system, classroom by classroom, and closing the chapter on federal intervention in our classrooms."[18]

Broughton is a former elected member of the 144-member Louisiana Republican State Central Committee for House District 10. In 2000 and 2004, he was the chairman in Webster Parish for the successful presidential campaigns of George W. Bush.[11]

In 2007, Broughton as a conservative Republican unsuccessfully challenged then State Representative Jean Doerge, a Democrat, for reelection to the District 10 seat in the state House which she had held since the death in 1998 of her husband, Everett Doerge. Broughton polled 35.2 percent of the ballots cast in a three-candidate field.[19] When Doerge was term-limited, Broughton ran again for representative as a Republican in 2011 in a four-candidate field and finished last with 12.6 percent of the vote. Victory went to Doerge's endorsed candidate, Democrat Gene Reynolds of Dubberly in Webster Parish.[20]

Broughton listed his 2011 legislative campaign priorities as:

Individual enterprise and small businesses [as] the core engine of our economic recovery and growth. We can strengthen our economy by fighting for sensible taxes on wages and business earnings, rewarding businesses that create private-sector jobs, and eliminating regulations that hamper growth and impose unnecessary cost.

It is not enough to grow the economy today. We must provide a high-quality education for all Louisianans in order to succeed in the future. ... Louisiana's students of today are its businessmen and women, its leaders and its families of tomorrow.

[We need] better opportunities for the citizens of our district, our state and our country. We deserve better. Smaller government is better—Local control is better—Parental choice for schools is better—Safer drug-free communities are better—Growing job opportunities are better ...[16]

In 2013, Broughton was president of the Webster Parish Tea Party Patriots. He joined Brent Bozell, III, of the Media Research Center and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in demanding that the national media cover the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of the income tax returns of conservative activists. It was noted that the media had spent far more time on the birth of the royal baby than the IRS scandal.[10][21]

On July 25, 2015, Broughton hosted a Constitution Party forum at Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville, in which a retired Baptist minister, Scott Copeland, a Mississippi native from Weatherford, west of Fort Worth, Texas, was the speaker. Copeland was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2016 Constitution Party presidential nomination, which instead went to the attorney Darrell Castle of Memphis, Tennessee. At the gathering, Broughton said that he had seen many failures in his former Republican Party: "We [Constitution Party] like to say we don’t have a platform. We have the Constitution. ... let's get back to the Constitution."[3] Broughton added. "The Constitution Party found me. It’s exactly what I think we should be doing as a country."[3]

References

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Preceded by
Sue Beck
 District 8 member of the Webster Parish School Board

Ronnie Lavelle Broughton
2003–

 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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